This is all extremely impresive. I like how you kept all the helmets the same color scheme.... what i would do if i were you is next time you go to some sort of convention bring them all but DONT tell your friends you have them all that way like every hour or so you can switch them out and when they ask "where did your rouge helmet go?" be like "what are you talking about i have been EOD all day?" and just keep switching over and over again
Thanks very much! And yeah it just seemed the right thing to do really, so whatever helm I felt in the mood for would fit in. I'll pretty much be doing that, going to an event called the Edinburgh Fringe Festival for a week with friends who live there, and we'll be going out on several different days so I'll be swapping helmets each day
my brother and i were in awe after seeing the last photo of the suit. we are currently remaking our halo suits, and are wondering if you could explain to us how to make our suits look exactly like that. we understand you used bondo, and alot of it, but maybe you used some other techniques? which products did you buy to create the look, and what were the steps/time frame you did it in.
for now, we have been using 2-3 layers of fiberglass resin on the outside, and 1-2 layers of liquid plastic on the inside. what is the method you have been using?
also, how did you achieve that paint effect? is it just the paint you used, or did you do a coat of paint under/light coat of black on top, etc.
i am currently building this suit with a mark v helmet, recon shoulders and attempt at building a Hayabusa chest. my armor uses white primary, and red secondary, and the white shown here is the exact white ive been looking for to make and use.
my brother will be using this suit with a rogue helmet, cqb chest and scout shoulders. for color we are going to use a blue primary (still working on the tone, but we want this same effect) and a white secondary (also this tone/effect)
if you could please help us out it would be well appreciated. ive been studying up on halo suit for the last year but never found anyone who pulled such a great build with the smoothness and paint ive been looking for until now. Awesome Job!
Hey glad I made a good impression!
For technique, it's fairly simple tbh. During the pep stages instead of folding every single fold I only folded where there was meant to be a sharp edge, where the armour was meant to be smooth I didn't fold, I just curved and held the card in place while it dried, so the pep stage started out pretty smooth to begin with.
For Bondo I really didn't use much, I resined the outside once, the inside has a 1-2mm thick layer of rondo and then I put thin layers of bondo on the outside for any area that wasn't quite smooth, I put a thin layer over each place the card was joined so I could disguise those bit. When it was all dried I used a mouse sander followed by a smoother sanding block to smooth off the bondoed areas.
For painting it I used a generic light grey automotive undercoat then to get the white I used "Vauxhall polar white" car spraypaint, sanded lightly any rough bits then put another thin layer on, to do the brown I sectioned off areas with tape and used "Vauxhall Brazil Brown" car spraypaint, again a couple of thin layers. For the blue bits I masked off the area I wanted, included a few small ragged bits to make the painting a bit rough then hand painted on the blue using acrylic model paint from Games Workshop, specifically "Enchanted Blue", the black areas are again hand painted with GW Acrylics, this time "Chaos Black".
I did the dirt effect quite simply, took a black and dark grey set of pastels, gently drew lightly done lines in the indented sections and round raised parts the rubbed them heavilly with a big dry paintbrush to work it in before rubbing the brush all over to spread the dust a bit, I then sprayed the whole thing with a thin coat of Satin lacquer to hold the dirt in place.
The worn edges were done by using a dark grey Tria Marker (Colour CG01) on the bits I wanted worn, I hand-drew random wear and tear shapes, when that was dried I then painted over the top of that grey pen with GW acrylic paint "Chainmail" colour leaving just a slight hint of grey poking through at the edges to give an undercoat effect.
Hoping that mountain of words helps out!
And if you have any other questions feel free to ask, I may put a vid up of me doing the dirt effect when I get my second shin far enough to do it just to try show it a bit more clearly.
